VIDEO – The unit can carry packets of 2 kg for deliveries in thirty minutes. However, there remain several obstacles before being put into service.
The delivery Amazon drone project takes shape. In a new video posted on YouTube, the giant retailer on the Internet this length will look like the route of a parcel by air, since boarding the aircraft to delivery in front of home buyers.
With its square design and bright colors, the drone featured in the video does not go unnoticed. It takes off vertically and can fly up to 120 meters. The buyer should ask out a target on which the aircraft landed to deliver his package. The machine is equipped with a system that allows it to detect air and avoid obstacles autonomously. These models are currently being tested to adapt to different flight situations. The delivery will take approximately thirty minutes and will involve packets weighing less than 2.3 kilos.
If the project is attractive and strong realistic video, Amazon will not fly drones in time to deliver gifts Christmas this year. In the US as in Europe, the regulation does not authorize shipments of this type. One of the rules ka FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration of the US states that the device must remain in among others the driver’s field of vision. An organization’s modernization reform was signed in 2013 by US President Barack Obama with a view to enable the use of drones by companies for delivery.
Competitors Amazon are working on their own solution
Jeff Bezos was not discouraged, however. For the creator and CEO of Amazon, it will one day “just as normal to see devices that Prime Air Post truck on the roads.” The contractor had revealed his project on television in January 2013. A year ago, in November 2014, the company announced that it would recruit its first drone pilots and aeronautical engineers to work for development in Cambridge or Seattle . The company may carry out open-air test in the United States since March 2015 only. These promotional videos are as a means of trying to influence the regulation.
Other companies are working on their own delivery service by drone. So Wal-Mart, the giant of the great American Physical Distribution, filed Monday, October 26 an application to test the use of drones for deliveries. Google also prepares its own drone delivery service. Named “Project Wing”, which should happen in 2017, in the words of Your Davis, head of the division of the American company. Alibaba, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, announced last February to want to use drones to deliver its products.
Europe also in the competition
In Europe, some emerging initiatives . DHL, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post, conducted a drug delivery on an island in northern Germany in August 2014. The service was presented as wiII to deliver essential goods. The flight was automated but constantly followed by a ground crew for safety reasons. In France, La Poste delivery tests by drones via its subsidiary GeoPost since September 2014 to deliver with drones. The preferred solution now is somewhat different from that used by Amazon. The device will land in a terminal with an automated truck retrieving the package. A first experimental delivery area could emerge in 2016 in the Var.
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